The Institute for the Psychological Sciences (IPS or the Institute) is a graduate school of psychology and an integral part of Divine Mercy University (DMU). The Institute was founded in 1999 with the mission of basing the scientific study of psychology on a Catholic understanding of the person, marriage, and the family, as well as being an international center for scholarship and professional training. Maintaining the highest academic standards, it seeks to educate new generations of psychologists and mental health professionals, as well as open new areas of research for psychological theories that explore the relationship between psychology and the Catholic-Christian understanding of the human person.